How much do we understand when skim reading?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 730-735

  Duggan, Geoffrey B ^a   Payne, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information search; Reading; Text skimming; World Wide Web; Writing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SEARCH; READING; RESPONSE BIAS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; TEXT SKIMMING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL WRITING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84869125825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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